[Ads-l] boodgie like natty in the styrofoam

[James Eric Lawson]

Just so, although Hayes says, about the squeaking,

“The squeaking in the back, that’s that’s um, that’s nothin’ dirty goin’
on there,” he laughs.

“That’s just what happens with a styrofoam cooler in a truck, if you’ve
ever driven one around. It’s squeaks a lot, it’ll drive you crazy.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/walker-hayes-clears-up-lyrics-gone-wrong-about-natty-maddy-and-squeak-squeakin-in-fancy-like/ar-AANg2oD

Hayes' intended meaning isn't worth a fig leaf, of course.

On 9/7/21 10:40 AM, Harry Prevor wrote:
> It means that the singer is low-class and not particularly fancy though
> not low enough to the level of being trashy per se. "Bougie" (slang
> short for bourgeoisie) is being used sarcastically here, the title of
> the song is "fancy like" but the entire song is about how un-fancy,
> "no-frills", "simple pleasures" the singer is in conventional terms.
> 
> So "bougie like Natty in the styrofoam" meaning rather than taking a
> date out to fancy restaurant which would be bougie, he instead gives her
> Natty (Natural Light, a very cheap US brand of beer) in a styrofoam cup
> holder. The squeak-squeakin is based on the sound the beer can would
> presumably make rubbing against that styrofoam in a bumpy car ride.
> 
> Harry
> 
> On 9/7/21 1:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> OK, Applebee's has been running a commercial using a song sung by Walker
>> Hayes that contains line which, so far as I can tell, is "Boodgie like
>> Natty in the styrofoam."
>>
>> Unable to stand it longer, I looked up the lyrics and found:
>>
>> "Two straws, one check, girl, I got you
>> Bougie like Natty in the styrofoam
>> Squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home."
>>
>> Meaning?
>>
>> JL
>>
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